Harry Wells Indian histories Professor Kristy Feldhousen-Giles Final The Penobscot nation (Algonkian by the book) As you may have heard some of my family originate from the Penobscot nation, My grandfather's grandmother was a full blooded Penobscot Indian. This makes me 1/64th, I know it's not much however I have lots of intrigue into my family history and this would be part of it. So I looked into my families history through Indian history and combed pages, internet, and information alike, to
Indian Nation. Penobscot is also the name of the dialect of Eastern Abenaki (an Algonquian language) that the Penobscot people speak Our name is derived by Vetromile from the Pānnawānbskek, 'it forks on the white rocks,' or Penobscot, 'it flows on rocks’. My tribe connected to the Abnaki confederacy (q. v.), closely related in language and customs to the Norridgewock. They are sometimes included in the most numerous tribe of the Abnaki confederacy, and for a time more influential than the Norridgewock